1940s
Hopalong
Cassidy starring William Boyd
Hopalaong Cassidy (Original 66 Theatricals) (1935-48)
Hopalaong Cassidy (Theatricals Edited for TV) (NBC) (1949-52)
Hopalaong Cassidy (Made-for-TV Episodes) (season 1) (Syndicated) (Fall 1952)
Hopalaong Cassidy (Made-for-TV Episodes) (season 2) (Syndicated) (1953-54)
The Lone Ranger (1949-57) Clayton Moore & Jay Silverheels / John Hart
1950s
The Gabby Hayes Show (1950-54 NBC)
The Gabby
Hayes Show
(1956 ABC)
Marshal of Gunsight Pass (ABC "live")(1950) starring Russell Hayden, Eddie Dean
The Cisco Kid (1951-54) starring Duncan Renaldo
The Gene Autry Show (Flying "A"/CBS)(1950-55) starring Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis
The Range Rider (Flying "A"/Synd)(1951-53) starring Jock Mahoney & Dick Jones
The Adventures of Kit Carson (Revue/Synd)(1951-55) starring Bill Williams, Don Diamond
The Roy Rogers Show (UPA/NBC)(1951-57) starring Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
Wild Bill Hickok (Screen Gems/Synd)(1951-58) starring Guy Madison, Andy Devine
Cowboy G-Men (1952-53) starring Russell Hayden & Jackie Coogan
Death Valley Days (1952-70) Western Anthology series
Lash of the West (1953) Lash La Rue with clips from his old films
Action in the Afternoon (CBS) (1953-54)("Live" Western Weekday Afternoons)
Annie Oakley (Flying "A")(1953-57) starring Gail Davis
Stories of the Century (Studio City/HTS)(1954-55) starring Jim Davis, Mary Castle, Kristine Miller
Davy Crockett (Disney)(1954-55) starring Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (Screen Gems)(1954-59) starring Lee Aaker
Homer Bell (syndicated)(1955) starring Gene Lockhart (Comedy Western series)
Red Ryder (Flying "A")(1955) starring Alan "Rocky"Lane
Buffalo Bill Jr (Flying "A")(1955-56) starring Dick Jones
The Adventures of Champion (Flying "A")(1955-56) starring Barry Curtis & Jim Bannon
Brave Eagle (1955-56) starring Keith Larsen
Frontier (California National/NBC)(1955-56) (Western Anthology series)
The Adventures of Judge Roy Bean (Russell Hayden/Synd)(1955-56) starring Edgar Buchanan
Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (J.Chertok/Synd)(1955-56) starring Douglas Kennedy, Eddy Waller
Sergeant Preston of The Yukon (CBS)(1955-58) starring Richard Simmons
Tales of the Texas Rangers (Screen Gems/CBS)(1955-58) starring Willard Parker & Harry Lauter
Fury (TPA/ITC/NBC)(1955-60) starring Peter Graves & Bobby Diamond
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (Edelman/ABC) (1955-61) starring Hugh O'Brian
Cheyenne (WB/Wm T.Orr/ABC)(1955-62) starring Clint Walker
Disney presents Corky and White Shadow (1956)
Gunsmoke (1955-75) starring
James Arness - 636 episodes
"Gunsmoke"
(1955-61) (seasons 1-6) 233 half hour black & white episodes
"Gunsmoke"
(1961-66) (seasons 7-11) 176 hour-long black & white episodes
"Gunsmoke"
(1966-75) (seasons 12-20) 226 hour-long color episodes
My Friend Flicka (TCF/CBS)(1956-57) starring Gene Evans, Anita Louise, Johnny Washbrook
Broken Arrow (TCF/ABC)(1956-58) starring John Lupton & Michael Ansara
Circus Boy (1956-58)starring Mickey Braddock, Noah Beery Jr, Robert Bowery
The Adventures of Jim Bowie (ABC)(1956-58) starring Scott Forbes
Zane Grey Theatre (4 Star/CBS) (1956-61) hosted by Dick Powell (Western Anthology)
Radisson (UK title: Tomahawk)(1957-58)(Canadian Western series)
Boots and Saddles (1957-58) starring Jack Pickard, Pat McVey, Gardner McKay
Casey Jones (Screen Gems/Synd)(1957-58) starring Alan Hale, Jr.
The Gray Ghost (Lindsley Parsons/ Synd)(1957-58) starring Tod Andrews, Phil Chambers
26 Men (Russell Hayden/Synd)(1957-59) starring Tris Coffin
Man Without A Gun (TCF/Synd)(1957-59) starring Rex Reason
The Californians (1957-59) Adam Kennedy, Sean McLory, Richard Coogan
The Restless Gun (Revue/NBC)(1957-59) starring John Payne
Trackdown (Four Star/CBS)(1957-59) starring Robert Culp
Colt 45 (WB/ABC)(1957-60) starring Wayde Preston & Donald May
Tombstone Territory (ZIV/Synd)(1957-60) starring Pat Conway & Richard Eastham
Sugarfoot (WB/Wm T.Orr/ABC)(1957-61) starring Will Hutchins
Disney presents Zorro (1957-59)(1960-61) starring Guy Williams
Maverick (WB/ABC)(1957-62) starring James Garner, Jack Kelly
Tales of Wells Fargo (Revue/NBC)(1957-62) starring Dale Robertson
Have Gun - Will Travel (CBS)(1957-63) starring Richard Boone
Wagon Train
(Revue/NBC/ABC)(1957-65)
starring Ward Bond, Robert Horton, John McIntire,
Robert Fuller
Jefferson Drum (Screen Gems/Goodson-Todman/NBC)(1958) Jeff Richards
Buckskin (Revue)(1958-59) starring Tommy Nolan, Sally Brophy
Cimarron City (Revue/NBC)(1958-59)starring George Montgomery
Frontier Doctor (Studio City/HTS)(1958-59) starring Rex Allen
Frontier Justice (Four Star/CBS)(1958-61) Western Anthology - reruns from Zane Grey Theatre
Mackenzie's Raiders (ZIV/Synd)(1958-59) starring Richard Carlson
Northwest Passage (MGM/NBC)1958-59) starring Keith Larsen, Buddy Ebsen
The Rough Riders (ZIV/ABC)(1958-59) starring Kent Taylor, Jan Merlin, Peter Whitney
Union Pacific (CNP/Synd)(1958-59) starring Jeff Morrow & Judd Pratt
Yancy Derringer (Sharpe-Lewis/CBS)(1958-59) starring Jock Mahoney
The Texan (Desilu/CBS)(1958-60) starring Rory Calhoun
Bat Masterson (ZIV/NBC)(1958-61) starring Gene Barry
Disney presents Texas John Slaughter (1958-61)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (Four Star/CBS)(1958-61) starring Steve McQueen
Bronco (WB/Wm. T. Orr)(1958-62) starring Ty Hardin
Lawman (WB/Wm T. Orr)(1958-62) starring John Russell, Peter Brown, Peggie Castle
The Rifleman (Four Star/ABC)(1958-63) starring Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford
Colgate Western Theater (Summer 1959)(rerun Anthology)
Black Saddle (Four Star)(1959-60) starring Peter Breck
Hotel de Paree (Bill Self/CBS)(1959-60) starring Earl Holliman as The Sundance Kid
Johnny Ringo (Four Star/CBS)(1959-60) Don Durant, Karen Sharpe
Law of the Plainsman (Four Star/NBC)(1959-60) starring Michael Ansara
Pony Express (CNP/Synd)(1959-60) starring Grant Sullivan
The Alaskans (WB)(1959-60) Roger Moore, Dorothy Provine, Jeff York, Ray Danton
Man From Blackhawk (Screen Gems/ABC)(1959-60) starring Robert Rockwell
Wichita Town (Mirisch-Four Star/NBC)(1959-60) starring Joel McCrea
Hudson's Bay (1959-60) starring Barry Nelson, George Tobias (Canadian Western series)
Riverboat (Revue/NBC)(1959-61) Darren McGavin, Burt Reynolds, Noah Beery, Jr.
Shotgun Slade (Revue/Synd)(1959-61) starring Scott Brady
The Deputy (Revue/NBC)(1959-61) starring Henry Fonda, Allen Case
The Rebel (Goodson-Todman/ABC)(1959-61) starring Nick Adams
Disney presents The Swamp Fox (1959-61)
Laramie (Revue/NBC)(1959-63) starring John Smith & Robert Fuller
Rawhide (MGM/CBS)(1959-65) Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood, Paul Brinegar, Sheb Wooley
Bonanza (1959-73)
Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
1960s
Disney presents Daniel Boone (1960-61)
Whiplash (1960-61) starring Peter Graves (Australian Western series)
Overland Trail (Revue/NBC)(1960) starring William Bendix and Doug McClure
Tate (Roncom/NBC)(Summer 1960)(Western)starring David McClean, Patricia Breslin
The Westerner (Four Star/NBC)(fall 1960) starring Brian Keith
Wrangler (Wolper/NBC)(Summer 1960) starring Jason Evers
Klondike (ZIV-AU/NBC)(1960-61) starring Ralph Taeger, James Coburn
Stagecoach West (Four Star/ABC) (1960-61) starring Wayne Rogers, Robert Bray
Two Faces West (Screen Gems/Synd)(1960-61) starring Charles Bateman
Outlaws (NBC)(1960-62) Barton MacLane, Don Collier, Jock Gaynor, Bruce Yarnell, Slim Pickens
The Tall Man (Revue/NBC)(1960-62) starring Clu Gullager & Barry Sullivan
Gunslinger (Charles Marquis Warren/CBS)(spring 1961) starring Tony Young, Preston Foster
The Americans (The Blue & the Grey)(NBC) (early 1961) starring Daryl Hickman, Dick Davalos
Whispering Smith (Revue/NBC)(Summer 1961) starring Audie Murphy, Guy Mitchell
Frontier Circus (Revue/CBS)(1961-62) starring Chill Wills, John Derek, Richard Jaeckel
Stoney Burke (UA/ABC)(1962-63) starring Jack Lord (Modern-day Western series)
Wide Country (Revue/NBC)(1962-63) Earl Holliman, Andrew Prine (Modern-day Western series)
The Virginian (Revue/Universal/NBC)(1962-71) starring James Drury
The Dakotas (WB/ABC)(early 1963) Larry Ward, Jack Elam, Chad Everett, Mike Greene
Temple Houston (WB/Jack Webb/NBC)(1963-64) Jeffrey Hunter, Jack Elam
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (MGM/ABC)(1963-64) Dan O'Herlihy, Kurt Russel
Destry (Revue/ABC) (spring 1964) starring John Gavin
Daniel Boone (TCF/NBC) (1964-70) starring Fess Parker
A Man Called Shenandoah (MGM/ABC) (1965-66) starring Robert Horton
Branded (Goodson-Todman/NBC)(1965-66) starring Chuck Connors
The Legend of Jesse James (TCF/ABC)1965-66) Christopher Jones, Allen Case
The Loner (TCF/CBS)1965-66) starring Lloyd Bridges
Laredo (1965-67)(Univ/NBC) starring Philip Carey, Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown
The Big Valley (1965-69) Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck, Lee Majors, Linda Evans
The Wild Wild West (CBS)(1965-69) starring Robert Conrad & Ross Martin
Shane (Paramount/ABC)(fall 1966) starring David Carradine, Jill Ireland
The Monroes (TCF/ABC)(1966-67) starring Michael Anderson Jr, Barbara Hershey
The Road West (Universal/NBC)(1966-67) Barry Sullivan, Andrew Prine
The Rounders (MGM/ABC)(1966-67) Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne, Chill Wills (Comedy Western series)
Pistols 'n' Petticoats (Universal/CBS)(1966-67) starring Ann Sheridan (Comedy Western series)
Iron Horse (Screen Gems/ABC)(1966-68) starring Dale Robertson, Gary Collins
Rango (Spelling-Thomas/ABC)(early 1967) Tim Conway (Comedy Western series)
Dundee and The Culhane (Filmways/CBS)(fall 1967) John Mills, Sean Garrison
Hondo (MGM/ABC)(fall 1967) starring Ralph Taeger, Kathie Browne
The Legend of Custer (TCF/ABC)(fall 1967) starring Wayne Maunder, Slim Pickens
Cimarron Strip (CBS)(1967-68) starring Stuart Whitman
The Guns of Will Sonnett (Thomas-Spelling/ABC)(1967-69) starring Walter Brennan, Dack Rambo
The Outcasts (Screen Gems)(1968-69) starring Don Murray & Otis Young
Here Come The Brides (Screen Gems/ABC)(1968-70) starring Robert Brown, David Soul
Lancer (TCF/CBS)(1968-70) James Stacy, Wayne Maunder, Andrew Duggan
1970s
Nichols (WB/NBC)(1971-72) Western series starring James Garner
Hec Ramsey (Univ/NBC Mystery Movie)(1972-74) Richard Boone
Kung Fu (WB/ABC) (1972-75) starring David Carradine
Dusty's Trail (1973-74) starring Bob Denver, Forrest Tucker (Comedy Western series)
Dirty Sally (John Mantley/TCF/CBS)(early 1974) Jeanette Nolan, Dack Rambo (Comedy Western series)
The New Land (WB/ABC)(1974) starring Bonnie Bedelia, Scott Thomas, Kurt Russell
The Cowboys (WB/ABC)(1974) starring Moses Gunn, Diana Diuglas, Jim Davis
Little House On The Prairie (NBC)(1974-82) starring Michael Landon & Karen Grassle
Barbary Coast (Paramount/ABC)(1975-76) starring William Shatner, Doug McClure
Sara (Universal/CBS)(1976) Western series starring Brenda Vaccaro
The Quest ( David Gerber/Columbia/NBC)(fall 1976) Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson
Young Dan'l Boone (TCF/CBS)(fall 1977) starring Rick Moses
How The West Was Won: The Macahans (MGM/ABC) (1977-79) starring James Arness
The Sacketts (NBC)(1979) Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, Jeff Osterhage (2 pt Western mini-series)
The Chisholms (Landsburg/CBS)(1979-80) starring Robert Preston (mini-series)
Young Maverick (WB/CBS)(1979) starring Charles Frank
1980s
Wild Times (Metromedia)(1980) starring Sam Eliott, Ben Johnson, Bruce Boxleitner (2pt. mini series)
Bret Maverick (WB/NBC)(1981-82) starring James Garner
Best of the West (1981-82) starring Joel Higgins, Carlene Watkins, Tom Ewell (Comedy Western series)
Father Murphy (M.Landon)(NBC)(1981-83) starring Merlin Olsen
Zorro and Son (Disney)(1983) starring Henry Darrow (Comedy Western series)
Gun Shy (Disney/CBS)(1983) starring Barry Van Dyke (Comedy Western series)
Five Mile Creek (Disney)(1983-85) starring Louise Caire Clark (Australian Western series)
Wildside (Disney/ABC)(early 1985) starring Howard E. Rollins, Jr, William Smith
Desperado (1987-89)(5 tv movies) starring Alex McArthur
as Duell McCall
Desperado (1987) (tv movie 1)
Return of Desperado (1988)(tv movie 2)
Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge (1988) tv movie 3
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars (1989) tv movie 4)
Desperado: Badlands Justice (1989) (tv movie 5)
She's The Sheriff (Lorimar/NBC)(1987-89) Suzanne Somers (Comedy Western series)
Paradise (aka Guns of Paradise)(Lorimar/CBS)(1988-91) staring Lee Horsley
Bordertown (Family Ch/CTV)(1989-91) Richard Comar (Canadian Western series)
The Young Riders (MGM/ABC)(1989-92)
Stephen Baldwin, Josh Brolin
Lonesome Dove (1989)(Western
mini series)
1990s
Zorro (New World Ent/Family Channel)(1990-93) starring Duncan Regehr
Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)(Western mini series)
The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr. (WB/Fox)(1993-94) starring Bruce Campbell
Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman (CBS) (1993-98) starring Jane Seymour
Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (1994-95) (Australian Western series)
Hawkeye (Stephen J. Cannell)(1994-95) starring Lee Horsley (Canadian Western series)
Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994-95)(Western mini series)
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years (1995-96 )(Western min series)
The Lazarus Man (TNT)(1996) starring Robert Urich
The Magnificent Seven (MGM Mirisch/ABC) 1998-2000) starring Michael Biehn
Disney TV Western mini-series
Disney presents Advs of Davy Crockett (1954-55) starring Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen
Disney presents Corky and White Shadow (1956)
Disney presents The Saga of Andy Burnett (1957-58)
Disney presents Texas John Slaughter (1958-61)
Disney presents Zorro (1957-59)(1960-61)
Disney presents The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca (1958-60)
Disney presents The Swamp Fox (1959-61)
Disney
presents Daniel Boone (1960-61)
Homer Bell (syndicated)(1955) starring Gene Lockhart (Comedy Western series)
Pistols 'n' Petticoats (Universal/CBS)(1966-67) starring Ann Sheridan (Comedy Western series)
The Rounders (MGM/ABC)(1966-67) Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne, Chill Wills (Comedy Western series)
Rango
(Spelling-Thomas/ABC)(early 1967) Tim Conway (Comedy Western series) Here Come
The Brides (Screen Gems/ABC)(1968-70) starring Robert Brown, David Soul
Dusty's Trail
(1973-74) starring Bob Denver & Forrest Tucker (Comedy Western series)
Dirty Sally (John Mantley/TCF/CBS)(early 1974) Jeanette Nolan, Dack Rambo
(Comedy Western series)
Best of the
West (1981-82) starring Joel Higgins, Carlene Watkins, Tom Ewell (Comedy
Western series)
Gun Shy (Disney/CBS)(1983)
starring Barry Van Dyke (Comedy Western series)
Zorro and Son
(Disney)(1983) starring
Henry Darrow (Comedy Western series)
She's The Sheriff
(Lorimar/NBC)(1987-89) Suzanne Somers (Comedy
Western series)
TV Westerns: Production Companies:
Flying "A" Productions (Gene Autry) Theatrical Westerns
"Universal Pictures" Western
Cliffhanger Serials
(1916-46)
"Mascot/ Republic Pictures" Western
Cliffhanger Serials
(1926-55)
Walt Disney Productions
Screen Gems Productions
Desilu Productions
California National Productions
ZIV-United Artists Productions
Four Star Productions
Warner Brothers Television Productions
(1955-65) (Wm T.Orr)
MCA/Revue Productions
TV's Western Heroes (documentary) (12pt)
When The West Was Fun (documentary) (5pt)
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